How would you spend your last day on Earth? TRICKY is planning the ultimate Jamaican party!
Where would you like to wake up?
Probably Kingston, Jamaica. Going there in general could be your last day on Earth, so you might as well live very dangerously.
What would there be left for you to achieve on your last day?
There’s a few enemies I’d like to take with me. I think mostly telling my family how much I love them, stuff you don’t do. We’ve all lost people and you think, ‘well, I wish I would have said that to them’, or, ‘I wish I would have told them this’. So there would be a lot of that, telling people I love them and what they mean to me and stuff.
Who do you have at your final dinner?
Family and friends and whoever wanted to come. Friends I grew up with, like people I went to school with and people I don’t see so much anymore, friends from junior school who I haven’t seen for years. So a lot of friends who I just don’t get to see anymore.
What are you going to eat?
Jamaican food. Dumplings, snapper, ackee and salt fish, chicken, and rum and coke. Chris Blackwell’s got his own rum and it’s really super strong, so I’d have a Blackwell rum.
What would you do that evening?
Party, I think. Any dancehall place with hard ragga music. You go to Jamaica sometimes and they throw firecrackers down and it sounds like gunshots and it’s quite intense.
What would be your biggest regret?
Not becoming a boxer. I would’ve loved to have been a champion boxer. That’s the only regret I have in life. Sometimes when I’m watching boxing I think, ‘I would have loved to have been able to do this. I would have loved to have been able to compete with world champions.’
How are you going to die?
In Kingston, probably get shot. The best way to go? With Bianca Jagger, heart attack.
What would your final words be?
What, to Bianca? ‘Thank you.’
What would you have written on your gravestone?
Billie Holiday said on her tombstone she’d like to have written ‘This drink’s on me.’ You know how people go to Jim Morrison’s grave and sit there and have drinks? So it’s literally that drink is on you. I think that’s a good one. Or I’d say, ‘Just sleeping. I’ll be back.’
Which dead star would you meet at the pearly gates of Heaven?
Billie Holiday and Kurt Cobain. I love Kurt Cobain’s songs, his whole attitude. I can feel his pain. I just think they’re extreme talent.
Describe your vision of Heaven.
Swimming pool, drinks, weed and loads of beautiful women.
If you could be resurrected the next day, what would you come back as and why?
Jesus. He’s got a lot of power. I love the thought of controlling people.
Interview by Jake Young
Read a review of Tricky’s ‘Mixed Race’ album on ClashMusic.com.
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